Improvement



BARKER (J. YOUNG, OF BOSTON, lWIASSAOHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,21 1, dated April20, 1875; application filed January 12, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BARKER (J. YOUNG, of Boston, of the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful inventionhaving reference to Buckles and their Attachments; and do hereby declarethe same to be fully described in the following specification andrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 denotes atop view, Fig. 2 a front view, Fig. 3 a rear view, and Fig. 4 alongitudinal section, of a buckle, a strap or piece of material, and abuckle attachment provided with my improvement.

The buckle A, besides its strap holding tongue a, is provided with ahook, I), to turn with thetongue in the cross-bar cot the buckleframe(I, and this hook may be provided with a sp ing-latch, 0, arranged asshown.

The buckle attachment is represented at B as composed of aplate, f,havinga perforated projection, g, extended at or about at a right anglefrom it, at or near one edge of it, as shown, Fig. 5 being a perspectiveview of the attachment. This perforated projection is to go through thestrap or piece of material '0, and to extend beyond it on one side ofit, while the base part or plate f may rest against the opposite side ofthe said piece 0, the hook being inserted in the staple. Were theperforated projection to project from the middle of the platef, it willbe seen that a draft on the buckle would cause one half of the plate tobe drawn toward the piece or material C, and the other half to be forcedaway from it, so as to project at an angle from it. Such a plate forholding the perforated projection would, therefore, be likely to injureor wear the stocking or leg of a person in case of the buckle beingapplied to a shoe, my invention being designed specially forshoe-buckles, although answering for various others. \Vith my improvedattachment its base-plate will be drawn into, rather than away from, thematerial, on account of the perforated projection being at or close toone edge of the plate. The attachment and the book form a ready means ofconnecting abuckle to a shoe or other article.

I make no claim to the combination of a snap-hook with a buckle. Nor doI claim a button attachment having an eye or hook at the middle ofitsbase, as shown in the United States Patents No. 7l,382 and 139,808; mybuttonattachment, with the staple arranged at the edge of thebase-plate, being productive of a new and useful effect when in use, andbeing calculated to avoid a difficulty as stated as incident to others,as mentioned. Therefore,

I claim as my invention as follows, viz:

The described buckle attachment, consisting of the base-plate f and theperforated projection g, arranged as specified-that is, so that the saidpart 9 shall be at or in close proximity to the edge of the base-plate,and transversely to the direction of the strain of a buckle, when thesaid attachment may be in use, and in connection with said buckle, asset forth.

2. The buckle provided with the hook, in combination with the plate fand staple 9, arranged as described.

BARKER O. YOUNG.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow.

FFKGE.

